Media Digest (10/17/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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Philips Electronics may be unable to shed its TV operation and will fire 4,500. (Reuters)

Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI) to buy El Paso (NYSE: EP) for $21 billion and will save $250 million in the merger. (Reuters)

Olympus falls 24% after its CEO is pushed out and certain questionable payments are revealed. (Reuters)

Samsung to seek a broad ban to sales of the Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone. (Reuters)

EU officials say they will have a plan in place by October 22 to handle the region’s financial crisis. (WSJ)

Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE: APC) to pay BP (NYSE: BP) $4 billion for issues related to Deepwater Horizon. (WSJ)

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) China CEO to leave as the firm faces strict regulation in the People’s Republic. (WSJ)

The UAW’s largest local approves a deal with Ford (NYSE: F). (WSJ)

U.S. postal workers will hire the former Obama car czar Ron Bloom to help them lose as few jobs as possible in a restructuring. (WSJ)

Realtor.com analysts report that the amount of attractive inventory in the home market has fallen. (WSJ)

The IMF says emerging market nations will not help Europe. (WSJ)

Hulu owners may bring in a new investor as their relationship with the premium website company weakens. (WSJ)

Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK) licenses some of its patents to Imax (NYSE: IMAX). (WSJ)

Carl Icahn buys a large stake in Navistar International (NYSE: NAV). (WSJ)

Mercer finds that young workers are happier that older ones but also are more likely to leave their companies. (WSJ)

A permanent change in how Wall St. operates could hurt Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) and Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) earnings for a prolonged period. (WSJ)

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) begins to sign authors and cut out publishers. (NYT)

The FCC sets a deal for wireless users to get alerts on minute overages that cost them money. (NYT)

Bids to buy EMI from Citigroup (NYSE: C) have fallen short of expectations. (NYT)

Energy bills in the EU could rise for 20 years. (FT)

The G20 give the EU one week to fix its debt crisis. (Bloomberg)

Bankers may face larger losses as government officials look to them to shoulder more of the costs of a Greek bailout. (Bloomberg)

Samsung files new suits to stop sales of the iPhone in Asia. (Bloomberg)

Douglas A. McIntyre

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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